As a newer participant at GenCon I was struck by the sheer size of it, as well as the number of new games being demoed and sold. Wondering how the market bears this, I attended a panel titled Tabletop Business…
Author: Ross Blythe
Impression: Freeblades Fantasy Skirmish Game
When my wargaming friends and I have gotten deeper into our drinks, our conversation steers towards the limits of d6 based rules systems for tabletop wargaming. I was reminded of this at GenCon upon seeing a demo set up for…
Blending Digital and Physical: Dire Wolf at GenCon
While at GenCon I was able to speak with Matt Hudson from Dire Wolf Digital. It was the company’s second year at the convention and we focused on their digital and physical strategy, specifically looking at two of their more…
Impression and Review of Inoka by XYZ Games
Inoka is a tarot sized card game played with 2-4 people centered around a rock, paper, scissors mechanic. The game was created by XYZ Games Labs, an indie Chicago based games company. Their first game was RobotLab, successfully funded on…
Pazaak at Gen Con: A taste of KotOR
Fifteen years ago Knights of the Old Republic (KotOR to use the shorthand) was an instant hit, and as the intervening years have shown, an instant classic. Awash in the sea of games that is Gen Con there was a…
Maiden’s Quest: She Got Tired of Waiting – Game Review
Maiden’s Quest is a 1 to 2 person (per box) deck building game themed around a Maiden and a Captor. The Maiden (the player), fed up with waiting for rescue, is trying to escape their captor and to do so…
Quick look at OverBattle: the All War
If you ever played Axis & Allies and thought something was missing, Syther Gaming agrees and brings OverBattle: the All War to GenCon 2018. OverBattle takes the static map and turns field creation into part of the conflict. A new…
Europa Universalis returns to tabletop with new Paradox project
Europa Universalis, the grand strategy video game by Paradox, is currently in development as a tabletop board game. The Paradox team demoed a round of play, introducing the nations, settings, and options currently in development for the game. The proposed…
In Defense of Dice
Twitter, in its infinite crowd sourced wisdom, floated this piece across my metaphorical desk several weeks ago, The “Superstitious Mumbo Jumbo” Of Dice Rolling. It’s a Neil Degrasse Tyson-esque read of people having fun with their dice rolling habits and…
Deadpool 2: This time, with Feelings
The following contains spoilers for Deadpool 2. I’m not a monster, you have been warned. The hardest question not to ask upon exiting Deadpool 2 was “how did this hold up to the first Deadpool?” The movie stands more…